Contrary to the claims of the GOP, education in a racist and sexist world cannot be “values-neutral.”
Racial Justice
There is much we can learn from Lee and Boggs’s 40-year partnership as an interracial couple in movement activism.
A new book details how the Second Amendment was written to empower local militia groups to put down slave revolts.
“Systemic racism needs a systemic response,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stated.
The mass graves at former Indian residential school sites are not the whole story. Colonial violence is far from over.
At least 25 states and many municipalities have proposed or passed legislation banning critical race theory in schools.
Health experts say Texas’s lax COVID response and refusal to expand Medicaid contributed to the higher death rates.
Child laborers on West African cocoa plantations are beaten, locked up and forced to toil for U.S. corporate profits.
Resisting despair honors “all of those grandmothers who kept fighting for justice,” theologian Kelly Brown Douglas says.
While recognition of Juneteenth is important, it’s just the beginning of a long road to true Black freedom.